mangrove swamp

noun

1. a coastal marine swamp of tropical or subtropical regions that is dominated by mangrove trees.

Word History and Origins

Origin of mangrove swamp¹

First recorded in 1850–55

Example Sentences

In an interview in the southwestern Colombia city of Cali where he lives, the slim, soft-spoken 29-year-old Colombian recalled how the operation began with the speedboat shooting out of a mangrove swamp, twin 250-horsepower engines roaring as the pilot next to him gunned the craft under a night sky.

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"I remember the first time I hiked out through the mangrove swamp and into the dense brush where this population occurred and being amazed by the sheer size of the stand," Lange said.

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The single, threadlike cells were first spotted on the surfaces of dying leaves in a mangrove swamp in the French Antilles.

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A restored mangrove swamp or an early storm warning system, for instance, doesn't generate the financial returns that a solar farm does.

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The boat stopped in a mangrove swamp.

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